What is this chanel about?
This is the English version of the TON Info channel. We publish news about the TON Blockchain along with the related app changelogs.

What we have already posted about TON.
On October 11, the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against TON. On October 17, it became known that Telegram was ready to postpone the launch of TON until April 30, 2020, and the hearing itself was postponed to February 18. On October 31, the official GitHub page ton-blockchain published the source code of the Gram Wallet for various platforms. On November 13, Telegram demanded to reject the US authorities' lawsuit against the launch of the Gram cryptocurrency. On November 15, the test network testnet was fully reset, and all the Grams received earlier had burned out. After that, a new test network was created, called testnet2.

Estimated TON Release Date: April 30, 2020

Download Gram Wallet: Android, iOS, Desktop.

After creating a wallet, you won't have any Grams, you can ask for some in our chat @infotonchaten with hashtag #iwantgram.

Gram Wallet for Android from Telegram Info updated to version 1.1

What's new:
- Corrections in the texts.
- Source code updated to the latest version.
- The ban on entering non-Latin characters and numbers in the input field of secret words.

Download from Play Store.

#wallet #update

3 day no gram

On November 20 wallets @test_ton_bot was transferred to 150 000 GR. The bot is distributed to all Grama in less than a day.

And now on day 4 wallets handing out bot not replenished. About changes on the balance of the bot will report @GramResurs

At the moment the tokens for the test, you can ask us in the chat room @infotonchaten

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Gram Wallet in the official Telegram client

On the messenger translation platform, for the first time, there were lines associated with Gram Wallet. The first, which found an official mention was Telegram for mac OS.

In the future, we should expect the integration of the Gram cryptocurrency wallet into other Telegram clients.

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Telegram warned about fraudsters selling Gram

«Some websites offer Grams to the public and pretend to be affiliated with Telegram. Please be aware that these websites are not official and have no affiliation with Telegram. No Grams have been issued to anyone, and Telegram is not involved in any sales of Grams».

https://xn--r1a.website/telegram/118

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Ukrainian businessman sued for fraud cryptocurrency Gram for $159 million

A group of investors (among them are companies from the Marshall Islands, United Arab Emirates and Liechtenstein) the lawsuit claims that the doctor convinced them to invest $15 million in cryptocurrency Gram, which intends to release the messenger Telegram Pavel Durov.

The money received Aluxes Holdings, which was to buy the tokens and hold cryptocurrency on behalf of the investors. The plaintiffs said that the doctor had deceived them, saying that he is not interested in investing in the Gram, and Aluxes will act just as an investment Fund. In fact, says the lawsuit, Korotkov had intended to assign bought with the investors ' money tokens. Investors claimed damages of $159 million — 10 times more than they invested.

The case against Valery Korotkov considers arbitration court of the UK. The suit was filed on 7 November.

forbes.ru/newsroom/biznes/388459-na-ukrainskogo-biznesmena-podali-v-sud-za-moshennichestvo-s-kriptovalyutoy

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Telegram launched the second stage of the blockchain contest

Dates: 7 Dec - 22 Dec 2019.

Prizes: $100,000 will be distributed among the winners (+additional $100,000 will be subject to certain conditions).

Who can take part: 41 winners of the 1st stage.

Criteria to identify the winners:
1) The validity and efficiency of your code
2) The potential demand for your service from a consumer standpoint.

More information can be found in the publication of the contest.

#contest #blockchain

New details from John Hyman, the former investment Advisor to the Telegram

Today from the correspondence of John Hyman, the U.S. district court received information about the project investors, in addition it turned out that the Telegram received funds from investors through banks BNY Mellon and Credit Suisse.

The names of some private investors, invest in a TON through the California Foundation Elysium Ventures:
A Hong Kong billionaire, former owner of the brands Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors, Silas Chu
The Creator Of WordPress Matt Mullenweg;
Co-Founder Of Foursquare Naveen Selvadurai
Co-founder and CEO of review site Yelp Jeremy Stoppelman
Former chief-editor of TechCrunch, Alexia Bonatsos

John Hyman in correspondence described the range of investors ICO TON so: "a lot of applications from Russia and CIS countries, quite a lot from Israel and a fan club of Paul."

https://thebell.io/v-chisle-investorov-telegram-okazalis-osnovatel-foursquare-i-eks-vladelets-michael-kors

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"Fucking genius", Jared Leto and investors from the "fan club": what else was known about the ICO Telegram from Durov letters and ex-Advisor


How Jared Leto "brought" in the mail of Pavel Durov with Mamoon Hamid:
"It is with great pleasure to introduce to each other two people to whom I treat with the respect, and looking forward to a great deal. Paul, meet Mamun, one of the smartest investors in the Valley and just a great guy. He's a lot like you. Creative troublemaker, which specifies all the heat and doing it with dignity and sincerity. He's also a big fan of your work. Mamun, as you know, Paul, the legendary founder and General fucking genius. You two should know each other!!!"

https://www.forbes.ru/tehnologii/389175-grebanyy-geniy-dzhared-leto-i-investory-iz-fan-kluba-chto-stalo-izvestno-ob-ico

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All documents for SEC's Telegram court case.

More about the technology works TON

The team that became the first validator in the network after a TON of developers, talks about the details of the network and about how easy it is to become a validator.

https://m.habr.com/ru/company/mercuryo/blog/479354/

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Telegram refuses to share financial data with the SEC ICO

"At the present time, the defendants refuse to disclose financial information about how they spent $1.7 billion raised from investors in the last two years, as well as answer questions about the distribution of these funds", — stated in the filed SEC court documents.

The request also States that the plaintiff intends to "compel the defendant to answer questions and provide documents concerning the amounts, sources of funds and their use in connection with the sale of unregistered securities".

"The requested documents are very important for the proceedings in the case, which includes questions about the amount spent Telegram funds for the development of the blockchain TON preparing for integration of the app Telegram Messenger, and other related components", — is spoken in documents of the Agency.

financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/telegram-refuses-to-share-ico-financials-with-the-sec

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Representatives of the Telegram noted that previously provided the Commission with a large volume of information concerning these transactions. The collection of additional information would be too burdensome for protection, say the lawyers. The petition included a detailed correspondence between the parties relating to the discussion of this issue.

https://tass.ru/obschestvo/7467315

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Telegram posted on his blog a public statement associated with bloccano TON and currency Gram

Collected from the main article on our website: tginfo.me/ton-gram-notice-en

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Full translations article from the blog of Telegram about a TON.

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